I'm a very smart young woman, only being 22, but I can't pretend that I know anything about finances because….well, I've never had any REAL money! I'm about to get a large sum of money and I want to invest in something to make my money grow, to make it work for me.

With the stock market being so unstable, I've been thinking about investing in real estate but since I want to start small and I do NOT want to be a landlord, I thought investing in a REIT would be the thing to do. However, I'm not positive 100% on what this entails, or who I would ever talk to about such a thing in my state of Connecticut. Who does one go to in order to invest in such a thing, or at least learn about more opportunities in my area. Thanks for any advice you can give me!